The neck and shoulder sections are separate to allow for a more pronounced transition from neck to shoulder.Īt this point I secured the neck and the shoulder pieces together using hot glue and trimmed the excess foam overlap underneath. Here you can also see the more articulated neck pattern I had mentioned previously.
Once the pattern is made, I then transferred it onto 4 mm EVA foam. It’s worth including that the flat neck section shown here was just a placeholder, since I will be using a much more shaped and articulated neck pattern I had modified from Evil Ted Smith.Īfter this I cut out the duct tape pattern and tried it on for a quick sanity check to make sure that it fits and is shaped generally how I want it. In general I try to add seam lines in the areas where there’s a nonlinear curve in the silhouette (in this case, the shoulders, neck line, and front of the armor). On the duct tape cover, I used a pen to draw on the shape of the neck armor including seam lines and potential spots for velcro/magnets to attach the blanket cape. To get the pattern for Hypnos’s neck armor, I started by covering a dress form in the saran wrap and duct tape. ⦁ Rustoleum gold spray paint + gold/brown acrylic paints ⦁ PVA glue / PlastiDip + Filler Primer / foam primers Plain foam would wrinkle and tear, but the Worbla understructure makes it strong enough to do this, and even helps enforce its shape too!
When making Hypnos’s neck armor I planned it to also be the attachment mechanism for his big blanket cape, so it needs to support a lot of weight. This allows you to still use foam priming and assembly methods, but have more versatility in terms of using it to support heavy items and reduce the speed of foam aging. The Worbla increases its overall strength and limits how much it’s allowed to flex.
A fantastic solution to this is using Worbla as an understructure beneath your foam.
#HYPNOS PAINTING HOW TO#
The first we’re sharing is this fantastic breakdown on how to make neck armor, using Worbla as a base under EVA foam for a sturdy but lightweight, durable piece of armor!Ī challenge of working with EVA foam is it can be too soft and too flexible this makes it difficult to use for foundation pieces that have to support big costume parts and often leads to excessive wrinkling. We partnered with squeakadeekn on their Hypnos build and they created 2 tutorials for us.